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And what this does is it creates opportunities for piracy, which the English and the Dutch will exploit very heavily. Okay, and these centers of economic exploitation will also need a lot of slaves. And so the English, the French, and the Dutch will take these slaves from Africa and smuggle them into the plantations to feed these colonies, okay? So this wealth allows Spain to enter its golden age. And one of the main artists of this golden age is actually Miguel Cervantes. And he's famous because he wrote a novel called Don Quixote de la Mancha. And it's considered the first great novel, or the first novel in human history. It is an amazing book, Don Quixote de la Mancha. I would love to teach it to you at the time, okay? But it's about a thousand pages. 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This money was being wasted in Spain, okay? It was being wasted in building these wonderful, beautiful buildings like El Escarrillo in Madrid. It's just outside Madrid, and it took about an entire year, of bringing back gold and silver from the new world to build this building but for the longest time this was the largest building complex in the entire world okay um spanish because the spain business was so wealthy became became the fashion trendsetter for all of europe so um spanish dress spanish clothing became popular throughout all of europe especially england um so what will happen is the spanish royal family will marry into the hapsburg and the haspanic family controls the holy roman empire and the", "word_count": 159, "timed_chunks": [ { "id": "seg-0029-chunk-001", "start": 1851.436, "end": 1852.7, "text": "It's easy to read,", "word_count": 4 }, { "id": "seg-0029-chunk-002", "start": 1852.78, "end": 1853.52, "text": "you can read it by yourself,", "word_count": 6 }, { "id": "seg-0029-chunk-003", "start": 1853.68, "end": 1856.64, "text": "okay? 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So this is an image that is supposed to represent sexual desire, but as you can see, there's some demonic qualities. There's some evilness to it, okay? You can see sort of like the evil eyes and laughter of the people involved, okay? Does that make sense to you guys? This is Jan Steen, one of the most famous painters of this time, okay? So as you can see, there are a lot of paintings that follow these themes. At the same time, you have also depictions of what it means to be a good middle class household, okay?", "word_count": 162, "timed_chunks": [ { "id": "seg-0049-chunk-001", "start": 3158.16, "end": 3163.96, "text": "They like to enjoy this anxiety between not having something because it's", "word_count": 12 }, { "id": "seg-0049-chunk-002", "start": 3163.96, "end": 3165.2, "text": "bad for you and wanting it,", "word_count": 6 }, { "id": "seg-0049-chunk-003", "start": 3165.3, "end": 3171.94, "text": "okay? 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So within these paintings captures a lot of middle class Christian values, all right? This is another representation, all right? So you can see the simple Calvinist work ethic being depicted in this picture. Rembrandt, who is the most famous painter from this period, okay, Rembrandt. This is probably the prototypical portrait of a wealthy person in the Dutch Republic, okay? She's wealthy, but the most important thing is, for you to understand, she's simple, right? She's not luxurious and decadent like the Spanish are. She is very restrained, she's very focused, she's very temperate in her behavior, okay? So she represents the quintessential, right? The quintessential wealthy middle class woman, all right? All right, so now let's discuss why the Dutch are buying these paintings, okay? 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Any questions before I go into the evidence and some of the history? Was this clear to you guys? I know I'm going fast, but we have a lot to do in order to finish the semester. Okay, so l..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0028", "segment_id": "seg-0028", "start": 1790.38, "end": 1851.436, "time_label": "29:50", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And again, everybody knows that. And what this does is it creates opportunities for piracy, which the English and the Dutch will exploit very heavily. Okay, and these centers of economic exploitation will also need a lo..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "segment_id": "seg-0029", "start": 1851.436, "end": 1917.16, "time_label": "30:51", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "It's easy to read, you can read it by yourself, okay? I highly recommend Don Quixote de la Mancha, okay? 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